“July 20, 1974 is a vital date for Turkish Cypriots as a result of the Turkish Cypriots regained their independence, liberation and freedom,” claimed Ersin Tatar.
In an interview with Turkey's Anatolia information company, Tatar mentioned that “just like the Aegean islands, Greeks dream of connecting with Greece and Cyprus, which they see because the thirteenth island,” and that they intention to create a “Higher Greece “, extending their sovereign rights to the Mediterranean in addition to that within the context of this concept the Greeks additionally contemplate the seas as their homeland.
“Truly, in a manner that is what they’re making an attempt to do with the inclusion of southern Cyprus within the European Union (EU). That’s, that the north and the south are inside the European Union and subsequently, this ideological stance that the island of Cyprus belongs to the European Union is basically geared toward that,” he mentioned.
He additionally claimed that “July 20, 1974 is a vital date for the Turkish Cypriots, as a result of the Turkish Cypriots regained their independence, liberation and freedom”, saying that this was made attainable because of the touchdown of the military that got here from the “mom homeland”, Turkey and the wrestle of the Cypriot Mujahideen.
“For the final 50 years there was peace in Cyprus. No person bought a bloody nostril. Earlier than this era there have been fixed conflicts. The place hundreds of individuals misplaced their lives throughout these conflicts,” he mentioned.
Arguing {that a} Turkish-Greek stability has been created in Cyprus and that this stability is predicated on the Treaty of Lausanne signed in 1923, Tatar emphasised that in that settlement it’s acknowledged that Turkey may have a say in the way forward for Cyprus if the standing or statistics on the island.
He acknowledged that the pseudo-state is an observer member of the Group of Turkic States and the Group of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and a member of assorted financial organizations.
“Regardless of some political injustices and restrictions, they’ve managed to indicate that they’re a separate folks…They’ve managed to make it recognized to the entire world that they’re a separate folks with their very own language, faith, tradition, future, the works, the achievements and with the honors they paid in addition to with the martyrs they gave. The entire world now is aware of very properly that in Cyprus there are two separate states, two separate democracies and two separate peoples”, he asserted.
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